A thank you to Brexiteers.
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Raheem
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Hipster pervert.Good lubricant
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
I didn't like to ask.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Ipsos-MORI have just released its latest Brexit polling.
Lots in there but one, possibly unsurprising, feature is that views appear to be firming up about the merits or otherwise of Brexit:
My eye was taken by the 10% of self-identifying remain voters & 26% leave who expressed the view that Brexit had made their daily life better. I wonder what those folk are seeing as better in their daily lives?
Lots in there but one, possibly unsurprising, feature is that views appear to be firming up about the merits or otherwise of Brexit:
My eye was taken by the 10% of self-identifying remain voters & 26% leave who expressed the view that Brexit had made their daily life better. I wonder what those folk are seeing as better in their daily lives?
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Increase of intolerance towards immigrants and asylum seekers? Anti-GRT law now in place, Rwanda scheme, eg.
Not all Brexiters, obvs, but there were definitely a lot of people who voted leave because they're flag-shagger types.
bimble
floofy
It's fascinating that, 1 in 4 leave voters saying their lives are better because of brexit, seems a lot to me because i can't imagine what they mean like in what ways their life is better, but on the other hand 80% of people saying its either not impacted them at all or made things worse for them suggests that 'we got brexit done' isn't likely to be that great a vote winner going forward is it.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Imagine how shit their lives must have been before if the current clusterfuck is preferable
bimble
floofy
seriously what could they be thinking of as we haven't even got the super strength hoovers yet.
Suspect its more like when you've got a dawning awareness that you've done a stupid thing but think you'd better just brazen it out and pretend you totally meant to do that all along and are in fact delighted with your choice of having put salt in your tea.
Suspect its more like when you've got a dawning awareness that you've done a stupid thing but think you'd better just brazen it out and pretend you totally meant to do that all along and are in fact delighted with your choice of having put salt in your tea.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I think it demonstrates, once again, the power of the affective domain for a fair chunk of that faithful demographic including the "lexit" believers who regard their daily lives as improved because they think they live in a context in which socialism in one country is now, hypothetically, a greater possibility. ie. nothing whatsoever to do with the lived reality of their daily lives.
philosophical
Well-Known Member
The UK has not left the EU because there is a wide open land border.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i think there is no chance for socialism in one country in the uk anymore as everyone wants out. socialism in four nations on a good day
Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
I think it was established on previous threads, or possibly this one, that "getting a warm fuzzy feeling when you think about Britain no longer being in the EU" technically counts as a benefit of Brexit.
bimble
floofy
true. and maybe those 1 in 4 remember to do that daily, making their daily lives significantly nicer.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
25% of 52% of 72.2% = ~9.4% of the adult population reporting better lives. it'll be fewer than that of course because many of the aged leave voters will have gone on to a perhaps better world, which may of course have been a significant improvement in their lives: don't suppose many of them completed the survey tho
Some people must feel their lives are better because they stuffed some foreigners and have a government that wants to send others to Rwanda.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
bullshit doesn't count
need to be a tangible
and anyone who gets a warm fuzzy feeling in that manner of brexit need shooting
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A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
krtek a houby
Kick me again Jesus
Can almost smell the euphoria
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Another Brexit bill to be paid
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Not with these leccy bills
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
krtek a houby
Kick me again Jesus
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
There's more to Pickman's model than meets the eye. It's worth the effort, in the long run. I've met the bloke, and he's sound (and he'll probably rip me a new one for saying this
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Very kind of you to say soThere's more to Pickman's model than meets the eye. It's worth the effort, in the long run. I've met the bloke, and he's sound (and he'll probably rip me a new one for saying this
but srb7677 has left the building
krtek a houby
Kick me again Jesus
Possibly still chilling with a friendVery kind of you to say so
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
The awful sound of the stable door being bolted long after the horse has bolted is unmistakable. But the commitment that an incoming “Labour government would not seek to rejoin the EU’s single market or customs union or reintroduce freedom of movement” at least indicates some recognition at the long term damage done.
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